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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-04-25

On account OF the EXTREME Low PRIC Z
OF these goods aud the nmi. cd quantity. we re.
serve tho privilege OF selling but One Garment
OF Z kind to each customer on the Same day,
thereby giving to all our patrons an equal
chance to secure some OF these GREAT BAR
GAIM6.
We "a rise all to call early ana get the best
styles ~ they will certainly 60 on the quickest
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-04-25
.APCINE PLASTERS
HUMpHEEYy.
HOMEOPATHIC
SrEolFlcs'

DR. HUMPHREYS
hook Of All Diseases, Cloth and Gold Blndings
IA Pages. with steel Engraving.
NAILED fREE.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-21

curious thing he had ever heard of.
The copies of the book he ordered were
intended for friends; and before he
sent them away he went through each
one, undermining the name William
Banks every time it occurred and adj
ding a note of exclamation on the
margin. His eldest daughter, who was
a girl of fourteen or fifteen, must have
grown to hate me. Every evening on
his return from the Office he had her
into the dining-room after dinner to
read chapters to him. When she came
to such a sentence as "Banks shook
hands with himself behind his back,
which was a custom of his, !" or" Banks
drummed with his fingers on the
window-pane," her father flung back
his head and roared. SO far as / got to
know him he was only interested in
one thing, and that was how came to
hit upon the name of William Banks.
l would reply that it was an accident,
and then try to get him on to something
else, but it was no use. His mind
dwelt on that one theme; and after /
had said something about the comet or
the housing of the poor, he would reply:
{" | don't think that kind of thing could
be entirely an accident" Whether his
friends were really as ridiculous as
himself, or only pretended to be so out
of politeness, don't know; but when
he introduced me to them as the man
who had put him in book they said it
was too bad, and expressed fear lest |
should put them in my next one. AS |
have said, / have written good many
L - .l..t d., l,,. &c tI,.,,,
all; but his invariabe criticism is that
they are not equal to my first one.
The strangest part of the business
has still to be told. Should biographi-
cal notice of the writer ever be penned
it will undoubtedly be pointed out that
the character of William Banks in my
first novel was not only drawn from
life, but named after the original. This
was not, of course, the case; but it is
inevitable that the charge will be made,
and shall not be able easily to prove
it groundless.
The fact is that the Banks of Shep-
herds bush has thought over the coin
cidence of names until he has got to
mix himself up with the Banks of fic-
ton. Whether Internationally or not,
he has adopted most of the peculiarites
of the other Banks, such as clasping
his hands behind his back and drum
ming with his fingers on window-panes.
The Banks of Imagination was dis
tinguished by white hat, which he
wore summer and winter. Banks of
Shepherds bush has discarded black
hats for white ones. He also divides
his hair as my Banks did, "with two
tufts that looked like horns, one on
each side of his head" and "never
walks on the pavement when he can get
the curb-stone to himself" Ihave seen
the living Banks within the last month
and was quite taken aback by the re-
semblance James Gazette.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-21

ments and there is less restraint, more
freedom of thought and action and
better chance to recuperate; and then
one may travel from point to point
without encountering heat and dust or
being iostled to death in overloaded
cars and stage-coaches. 1t is undeni-
ably true that custom carries thousands
of people every year in the height of
the season from elegant and comfort
able homes in the cities to deprivations
and discomforts at the summer resorts
which go very far towards offsetting all
the advantages to be derived from pure
air, spring water and change of scene.
Men and women accept during their
vacations accommodations which they
would not deem tolerable at home, and
oftentimes return from their summer
journeyings more weary and exhausted
than when they departed; but in the
fall there is no need of this. During
September one can live away as well
and as cheaply as at home. Wherever
he goes he may find plenty of room,
wholesome food, prompt and satisfac-
tory service, and whatever else makes
an outing enjoyable and profitable. Ex-
perience is teaching these facts slowly
but steadily, and each year the season
is prolonged. This season it promises
to last until the middle of October
Manchester Mirror.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-21
The Outlook.

DR.. d. G. Brinton, in the Medical
and Surgical Reporter, says: In the
medical profession never before were
there so many thoroughly educated
physicians among us; never was the
standard of our medical schools so high
never were our hospitals, sanitary insti-
tutions and boards of health so numer-
Gus, so well supported and so efficient.
Perhaps we are too much given to- under
rate our progress in these directions.
Comparing ourselves with some of the
much smaller and much older countries
of Europe-still more, comparing our
selves with our own ideals of perfec-
ton in these respects-we may be
tempted frequently to speak with some
thing like contempt or despair of our
advancement. 1t is decided error of
fact so to do. Any intelligent physician
who has had the advantage of some
public position bringing him largely
into contact with his professional
brethren for the last quarter of CEN
fury, cannot fail TO acknowledge the
enormous, the surprising advance that
has been recorded. This growth will
not cease nor diminish. On the con-
trary, it will become more marked year
by year, and the year on which we are
now entering bears every promise of
adding not little to the general sum of
professional improvement"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-21
Things Transient in the
Constitution.

The glimpse obtained, through the
draft just reviewed, into the workshop
of the trainers of the Constitution
shows how much they depended on
things destined to be transient. " I'm
parchment is now rusted blunder-
bus. The plan of presidential electors,
hailed as a means of securing indie
pendence, both of legislative cabal and
the popularis aura, has proved the cum
brous fifth wheel to a coach. Despite
the virtuous first amendment, chap
lains have their traditional cakes and
ale in the Capitol. Notwithstanding
the constitutional testimony against
titles of nobility, "his eXcellency of
the White House demands audience of
" her majesty" on her jubilee, and is
the more powerful person of the two.
Mason, Randolph and Franklin having
vainly sought to distribute executive
power so that no man should glory in
the face of the republic, tried hard to
surround the president with an execu-
tive council. The individual president
is still able to glory even all the more
that he is surrounded by cabinet-un-
known to the onstitution-among
whom he may distribute responsibility
for his blunders. Some unwritten ar
ticles of our Constitution fulfill the
hopes of the purest republicans of the
convention. The third-term heresv
has been discredited; the right of the
American people to their union has
been affirmed; the right of the republic
to protect the new world from encroach-
ments of foreign despotism has become
a doctrine. Lord Tennyson recently
expressed his envy of the conservative
restriction in our Constitution on
change in the organic law; but the lau-
reate sees us through illusions of dis
lance. People have little more diff
Guilty in reading their prepossessions
into constitution than sects have in
finding their several creeds in the
Bible.-Edmund Randolph, in Serb
ne1's Magazine.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-21
A Victim of Adverse Circumstances.

A Lake George contributor writes
" Did you ever count how many kinds
of plants and trees are growing in a
given space? The number is always
greater than you would think. Nature
loves variety and is never sparing of
her seed. On narrow strip between
the house and the bare rock in little
clump of native growths two varieties
of oak and at least two of pine may be
seen, and the whole collection hardly
exceeds half dozen. Down the rock
nearly to the waters edge, trying to
grow in narrow crevice, is a diminu-
tive iack-pine, its trunk and top not
over six inches high. A young seed
ling? No; but stunted semj-adult
that has had almost nothing to feed on
for years and is well-nigh starved.
The trunk, if trunk it may be called,
which is hardly thicker than a rye
straw, is scaly and hard as a tough
chickens leg, and there is a scaly dead
lower limb, which suggests a tale of
vicissitudes and disaster. Tracing the
root down along the edge of the crew
ice we found it terminated in tuft of
moss not bigger than a chestnut burr.
Out of such poor material it has been
attempting to elaborate a growth. The
effort is praiseworthy, but the outcome
pathetic. We could not help thinking
of the many starveling intellects no bet
ter placed as to environment.
Fair knowledge to their eyes her ample page.
Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unrol;
Chill penury depressed their noble rage
And froze the genial current of the soul"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-21
A Novel Bet.

"While am not a betting man."
said F. j. Cheney of the firm of F. j.
Cheney & Co., q" Il considered it my
religious duty to make that fellow a
bet. You see he was about dead, and l
guess he would have died before spring
if | had not have got him on the bet.
You know some men had rather lose
their life than lose a hundred. Well,
he was one of that kind, and we both
came near being out, but l saved my
hundred and it only cost him ten dol
lars. How's that? He sent for me
one day and said the doctors had all
given him up to die with the catarrh.
| told him that l would bet him 500
that Halls Catarrh Cure would cure
him, or | would give him 500 if it
failed. He took the latter proposition.
This was three months ago. You see
how he looks now, don't you Pas well
as any one, and dandy. "-American
Toledo, Ohio.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-21
In a Land of Darkness.

New Guinea, probably the second
island in size in the world, is less known
to civilized man than any other region
of equal size. Until recently even the
principal features of the coast had not
been accurately determined and the
interior still offers an extensive field
for exploration. During the present
year an expedition under Mr.. Theodore
Bevan has successfully sought water
route to the inland mountains, discov-
ering two magnificent rivers, with nu-
merous tributaries. The main streams
were named the Douglas and the Jubi-
lee, and were navigated for one hum
dred thirty and one hundred ten miles.
The course led into country of SUI
perb mountain scenery, through fertile
lands, in which sage, bananas, tobacco,
bread-fruit and sugar-cane were found
to be indigenous. The island proved
to be practically uninhabited except
within few miles of the coast. Seven
tribes of natives were encountered near
the Gulf of Papua, the largest number
ing four hundred or five hundred men.
The climate was not unhealthy, the
temperature varying from seventy-two
to eighty-six degrees during the day,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-21
The Vacation Season.

Every year we note an increasing
disposition among city visitors to pro-
long their stay until late in September,
and many of those who have but a
month or two at their command, and
who can arrange their business so as to
take their vacations when they please,
plan it to be away late rather than early.
This is not only getting to be fashion
able but it is eminently sensible, for,
attractive and charming as our hills
and mountains, our lakes and rivers in
midsummer, one knows little of the
glories of New England scenery until
he has seen it clad in the robes of au-
tumn and gilded by the rays of the har-
vest sun and moon; then it is be-
witchingly beautiful as well as grand.
There are other conditions, too, that
make September in many respects the
best month among the mountains.
Then the hotels are not crowded, ac-
commodations are better and rates less !;
then fashion has flown to the pave
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-21
Selected Storp.
MY Cottage Window.

Homely and humble, these my cottage rooms
No fine upholstering or gilded walls
No woven threads of Persa's tabled looms,
No fair-arched entrance into stately halls
No marble Clytie. with its frozen veins.
All bloodess, wandering over snowy breast;
But one sweet Cupid, touched with richer strains
OF rosy life on lip and cheek and crest
OF golden curs, whose spirals catch the glow
OF every sunbeam; this my kngly boy.
And my one window, wisely made for show
OF greenest foiage-these insure me JOY
My cottage window, framed with sturdiest vine
Whose gladness laughs in every lusty leaf
Where fuchsias hang their bells and pansies shine
Like violet eyes, touched with some childish grief
Here blooms the rose, and there the spicy pink;
Here lifts the Gala grandy, pure and fairs
And here sit I, to read, work, or think,
And Irvine bright flowers in baby's golden hair.
Call me not poor for wondrous wealth Is mine
The wealth of bouudless love and sweet content;
One human blossom, heaven shall make divine,
And Gods dear flowers in loving likeness blent.
Mrs. Harry Don. IN cool housekeeping
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advertisements.

They will not only relieve, but will positively
cure, Combination.
They never disturb the stomach, never leave the
bowels constipated, and especially valuable for
children and invalids.
Constipation when neglected soon produces dys.
pepsa, biliousness headache, languor and dizziness,
symptoms which promptly disappear after the
proper use of these pills.
Any persons who have used the Ruby Pills without
obtaining the desired result will confer favor
the company and receive without cost to them
selves directions for their special by describing
their symptoms (enclosing stamp to Ruby Pill Co.,
Eliot Maine.
The travelling public is better pleased with this pill
than with any other. Price twenty-five cents per
bottle. For sale by all druggists and by the trade
generally.
GEO. c. GOODWIN & co.,
Boston, Mass, General Agents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-21
Choking Catarrh.

Have you awakened from disturbed sleep with all
the horrible sensations of an assassin cutching your
throat and pressing the life-breath from your tight
ened chest? Have you noticed the languor and de-
bty that succeed the effort to clear your throat and
head of this catarrhal matter? What depressing
influence it exerts upon the mind, clouding the
memory and filling the head with pains and strange
noises How difficult it is to rid the nasal passages,
throat and lungs of this poisonous mucus all can
testify who are afflicted with catarrh. How difficult
to protect the system against its further progress
towards the lungs liver and kidneys all physicians
will admit 1t is terrible disease, and cries out for
relief and cure.
The remarkable curative powers when all other
remedies utterly fail, of SANFoRDs RADICAL CURE
attested by thousands who gratefully recon-
mend it to feow-sufferers. No statement is made
regarding it that cannot he substantiated by the
most respectable and reliable references.
Each packet contains one bottle of the RADICAL
CURE, one box of CATARRHAL SOLVENT and an
IMPROVED INHALER. with treatise and directions,
and is sold by all druggists for Sl.0O
POTTER DRUG & CHEMICAL Co., Boston.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-21

jerks DREAM.-Jenks had queer
dream the other night. He thought he
saw a prize-fighters' ring, and in the
middle of it stood a doughty little
champion, who met and deliberately
knocked over, one by one, a score or
more of big, burly-looking fellows as
they advanced to the attack. Giants
as they were in size, the valiant pigmy
proved more than match for them.
1t was all so funny that jerks woke up
laughing. He accounts for the dream
by the fact that he had just come to the
conclusion, after trying nearly every
big, drastic pill on the market, that
Pierce's tiny Purgatve Pellets easily
" knock out" and beat all the rest
hollow.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-21
Mistellanp.
A Mountain Lake.

Bright gem upon fair natures breast,
Far-gleaming with Respondent ray,
When morning gilds the mountain crest,
Or stars look down on dying day;
No sound disturbs thy calm repose,
No bird the hush of morning breaks;
The slumber thy fair bosom knows
Alone the fitful zephyr wakes.
Beneath the cloudless summer sky
SO pure thy crystal depths appear,
with heart attuned, I wish thatI
Might look above with soul as clear.
OF somber cast or Joyous sheen,
If sparkling with the sapphire ray,
Or emerald as thou now art seen,
Or clad in livery Of gray
Thou catchest from above, around,
The choicest hues of earth and sky;
The tnts thy leafy borders bound
My every changing mood supply.
And thine it is such peace and rest,
Such health and happiness to give,
weuld my own lot were as blest,
would as pure and bounteous live.
Thomas Vista
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advertisements.
Initiated Blood
ScrOfulOus, Inherited and Con-
tagiOus HumOrs Cured
by Cuticura.

rUNHROUGH the medium of one of your books, re-
Il ceived through Mr.. Frank I. Wray, Druggist,
Apollo, Pa, became acquainted with your CUT1-
CuRA REMEDIES, and take this opportunity to tes-
tify to you that their has permanently cured me
nection with erysipelas that have ever seen and
this after having been pronounced incurabe by some
of the best physicians in county. take great
pleasure in forwarding to you this testimonial un-
solicited is by you in order that others suffer
ing from similar maladies may be encouraged to
give your CUTICURA REMEDIES q trial.
r. s. WHITLINGER, Leechburg, Pa.
Reference: FRANK ~ WRAY, Druggist, Apollo Pa.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-21

THE secretary of war, acting under
authority of congress, has directed that
one hundred forty pieces of unservice-
able artillery be turned over to the
Gettysburg Battlefield Association
These guns will be of the same pattern
as those used by the Union forces in
the battle and will be placed in the
same position.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-21

A CELEBRATED artist in town has
just finisheda new sign. threads: "Use
LaXador, the golden remedy for all
liver diseases. Price only twenty-five
cents"
AN infallible sign of physical decay
is sleeplessness; if this is dangerous in
an adult it is deadly in early child
hood. DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup will al
ways assist in comforting the baby.
Price twenty-five cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-21
sCROFULOUs ULCERS.

James T.. Richardson, Custom-house, New orleans,
on oath says: In 1870 Scrofuous Ulcers broke out
on my body until was mass of corruption. Every
thing known to the medical faculty tried In
vain. became mere wreck. At times could not
lift my hands to my head, could not turn In bed; was
i'm constant pain, and looked upon life as a curse.
No relief cure in ten years In 1850 1heard of the
CUTICURA REMEDIES, used them and was perfectly
cured"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-21
ONE OF THE WORST CASES.

We have been selling your CUT1CURA REMEDIES
for years and have the first complaint yet to receive
from a purchaser one of the worst cases of Scrof-
ula saw cured by the of five bottles of
CuTICURA REsOLvENT, CUT1CURA and CUTICURA
SOAP. The Soap takes the " cake " here as me-
dicnal soap.
TAYLOR & TAYLOR, Druggists Frankfort, Kan.
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DRUGGISTS Use THEM.

We have obtained satisfactory results from Tia,
use of the CUTICUBA REMEDIES in our own family
and recommend them beyond any other remedies
for diseases of the skin and blood. The demand fo
them grows as their merits become known.
MACMILLAN & CO.. Druggists, LatrObe, Pa.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-21

THE government of New South Wales
has offered 300, 900 acres of land to any
missionary society that will undertake
to civilize the natives.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-21

THAT tired feeling and loss of appe-
tite are entirely overcome by Hoods
Sarsaparilla, the peculiar medicine.
Try it and see.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-21
CUTICURA REMEDIES

sold everywhere. Price: CUTICURA, the Great
Skin Cure, fifty cents; CUTICURA SOAP, an Ex
quiste Beautifier twenty-five cents; CuTICURA RE
SOLVENT the New Blood Purifier, Sl.0O POTTER
DRUG AND CHEMICAL Co., Boston.
DIMPLES, Backheads Skin Blemishes and Baby
] lW Humors. Use CUTICuRA SOAP.
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SCROFULOUS, INHERITED

And Contagious Humors. with Loss of Hair ant
Eruptions of the Skin, are positively cured by CuTI
CURA and CUTICURA SOAP externally, and CUT1
CuRA REsoLVENT internally, when all other medi
cines fail Send for Pamphlet.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-21
The First Symptoms

or all Lung diseases are much the same:
feverishness, loss of appetite, sore
throat, pains in the chest and back,
headache, etc. In few days you may
be well, or, on the other hand, you may
be down with Pneumonia or galloping
Consumption" Run no risks, but begin
Immediately to take Ayers Cherry
PICTORIAL.
Several years ago, James Birchard, Of
Darien, Conn, was severely i'll. The
doctors said he was in Consumption,
and that they could do nothing for him,
but advised him, as last resort, to try
Ayers Cherry Pectoral. After taking
this medicine, two or three months, he
was pronounced well man. His health
remains good to the present day.
j. S. Bradley, Maiden, Mass, writes
"Three winters ago l took severe cold,
which rapidly developed into Bronchitis
and Consumption. l was so weak that
l could not sit up, was much emaciated,
and coughed necessarily. 1 consulted
several doctors, but they were power
less, and all agreed that 1 was in Con-
sumption AT last, friend brought me
bottle of Ayers Cherry Pectoral.
From the first dose, l found relief.
Two bottles cured me, and my health
has since been perfect"
Ayers Cherry PeCtoral,
PREPARED BY
Or. j. G. Aver & Co., Lowell Mass.
Sold by all Druggists. Price 81 six bottles, g.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-21

THE MISSES BRIDGMAN, graduates OF the Mon
roe School of oratory and Dramatic Art, pre-
pared to give instruction in voice-culture expires
sion gesture and rendition. They will respond to
calls for associations lecture courses literary and
church societies y q address. Hardwick, Vt
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-21
TO THE LADIES.

From this date shall he liberty to teach cutting
and fitting ladies' and children's garments by the
Dress-makers' Square, Mrs. +. T.. Durgin sole owner
and proprietor. Complete systems kept and sold by
me. Please give me "A call Very respectfully.
ALICE L. WEEKS.
East Bethel, VT. August u, lss7.